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GER: The Official Guide to the Great Eastern Railway

1910

GER: To the Continent by the Harwich Steamer

1914

Great Eastern Railway menu card

1912

Restaurant Cars Wine List and Tariff for Third Class

1919

Itinerary sheets for Great Eastern Railway Outings, 1903-1911

1903-1911

Itinerary sheets for Great Eastern Railway Outing, 1911

1911

Itinerary sheet for Great Eastern Railway Outing, 1907

1907

Itinerary sheet for Great Eastern Railway Outing, 1903

1903

Itinerary sheets for Great Eastern Railway Outing, 1909

1909

Great Eastern Railway cheap excursions

1888

Great Eastern Hotels

circa 1890s

Royal Wedding - Departure from Liverpool Street Station of Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of York

1893

Great Eastern Railway Company order of service

1922

Great Eastern Railway Liverpool Street City Terminus drawing

circa 1864-circa 1875

St Pauls Cathedral divine service

1919

Harlow Garden Village

Yarmouth South Town bench

1862-1922

Itinerary sheets for Great Eastern Railway Outing, 1910

1910

Parkeston Quay Harwich

1912

Steam locomotive, number 1217, Great Eastern Railway

1905

portrait of charles hubbard

Telegraph Block Instrument, Great Eastern Railway, 2-position absolute block type, sending and receiving with tapper and combined gong.

Telegraph Block Instrument

Semaphore signal arm with integral spectacle and secondary spectacle, two glasses cracked, crossing gate signal, lower quadrant, Great Eastern Railway, made by EC & JK Ltd.

Semaphore signal arm with integral spectacle and secondary spectacle

Semaphore signal arm with integral spectacle, green glass missing, crossing gate signal, lower quadrant, Great Eastern Railway, made by Saxby & Farmer, London.

Semaphore signal arm with integral spectacle

Plate, ceramic, Great Eastern Railway, white glaze with black geometric pattern around rim with pink lining, marked at centre garter ‘Engineers Saloon’ enclosing ‘GER’, by Royal Crown Derby.

Plate, GER Engineer's Saloon

Plate, ceramic, Great Eastern Railway, white glaze with black geometric pattern around rim with pink lining, marked at centre garter, 'Engineer's Saloon' enclosing 'GER', by Royal Crown Derby.

Plate, GER Engineer's Saloon

Model steam locomotive, scale 1:8, Great Eastern Railway 4-4-0 passenger express No. 1900 "Claud Hamilton", prototype built 1900, model built 1900 by George Perry, Erecting Shop foreman at Stratford Works, awarded Gold Medal at Paris exhibition in 1900.

Model of steam locomotive "Claud Hamilton"

1900

Map, Great Eastern Railway, 'East London', undated early 1900's, hand tinted for detail, published/printed by Ordnance Survey, paper-backed linen.

Map, Great Eastern Railway, East London

1900

Map, system map, Great Eastern Railway, 1919, published/printed by GER, drawn by L Dix, paper-backed linen.

Map, system map

1919

Guidebook, Great Eastern Railway, "Railway Illustrated Tourist Guide", 1879, places to visit, cost new 1d, 31 pages, soft cover.

GER - Railway Illustrated Tourist Guide

1879

Travel guide, Great Eastern Railway, Seaside and Countryside in East Anglia, by Percy Lindley, illustrations by Oscar Wilson, describing resorts around the East coast of Britain, 64 pages, with card cover.

GER: Seaside and Countryside in East Anglia

1915

Map, Great Eastern Railway, 'Felixstowe (part of)', 1902, 25.3 inches to 1 mile, published/printed by Ordnance Survey, paper-backed linen.

Map, Great Eastern Railway, Felixstowe (part of)

1902

Guidebook, Great Eastern Railway, "Farmhouse and Country Lodgings in Essex, Hertfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Suffolk and Norfolk", 1901, places to visit and timetables, 103 pages, soft cover.

GER - Farmhouse and Country Lodgings in Essex, Hertfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Suffolk, and Norfolk

1901

Travel guide, Great Eastern Railway, East Coast Pictures, by Percy Lindley, illustrations by Oscar Wilson, describing resorts around the East coast of Britain, 48 pages, with card cover.

Great Eastern Railway, East Coast Pictures

1915

Guidebook, Great Eastern Railway, "Sun Pictures of the Norfolk Broads", by Payne Jennings, 1897, 103 pages, hard cover.

GER: Sun Pictures of the Norfolk Broads

1897

Great Eastern Railway Employees' Accident Benevolent Fund Index giving particulars of cases in which application has been made for grants, 1913 to 1923. Divided into alphabetical sections, then each section arranged chronologically by date of the Fund committee meeting which awarded the compensation. Each entry gives the employee's name, occupation, department, station, nature of injury, date of injury, date of committee meeting which awarded compensation, and remarks, usually detailing compensation amounts or treatment.

Employees' Accident Benevolent Fund - Index giving particulars of cases in which application has been made for grants

1913-1923

Letter, Great Eastern Railway, From Superintendent of line, 27 March 1886, Appointing D. Metcalf station master at Emneth, (Other IDs 76/25/492).

Great Eastern Railway

1886

Timetable, Great Eastern Railway, "April 1898" with notice to the staff, issued by H.G. Drury, 1898.

Great Eastern Railway timetable, April 1898

1898

Plan of Cambridge Station and surrounding area, Hills Road to Mill Road, scale 1 chain - 1" Great Eastern Railway land agent's office, revised 1909.

Plan of Cambridge Station and surrounding area

1909

Folder of Board of Trade documents giving instructions on the opening of railways. Collected together by the Great Eastern Railway and kept in the District Engineer's Office at Stratford. Includes manuscript letters and notes about amendments to the instructions. Added to by the LNER.

Opening of Railways - Board of Trade Requirements

1889-1928

Rule book, Great Eastern Railway, Rules and Regulations, 1897, 189 pages, dark red hard cover.

Great Eastern Railway Rule Book 1897

1897

Lost Property book, Great Eastern Railway, Felstead Station, 1850-1951.

lost property book

1890-1951

Waybill, Great Eastern Railway, for perishable and other miscellaneous traffic by passenger train, Used on 27th August 1884.

waybill for perishable and other miscellaneous traffic by passenger train

1884

Great Eastern Railway Ponders End Diagram of Signals - Great Eastern Railway water-coloured diagram of signals at Ponders End station. On linen-backed cartridge paper. Dated 16 May 1916.

Ponders End Diagram of Signals, Great Eastern Railway

1916-05-16

Specification, Great Eastern Railway, High Sided Wagons, September 1920, 13 pages.

GER Wagon Specification

1920

Volume, paper with board covers, rebound and re-covered, GER Carriage Stock - Miscellaneous: Mail Vans, Carriage Trucks, Horseboxes, Cattle Boxes, Milk Vans, Fish Vans, written up circa 1902, entries backdated to 1870, with amendments made up to circa 1948. Details GER Mail Vans, Carriage Trucks, Horse Boxes, Cattle Boxes, Milk Vans, Fish Vans, their numbers, drawing and diagram references, compartments, suburban or main service, dates of modifications, dates of disposal. Some vehicle lengths also given.

GER Carriage Stock - Miscellaneous: Mail Vans, Carriage Trucks, Horseboxes, Cattle Boxes, Milk Vans, Fish Vans

circa 1902-circa 1948

Volume, paper with board covers, rebound and re-covered, GER Carriage Stock - Saloon & First, written circa 1904, entries backdated to 1875 with amendments made up to circa 1940. Details GER saloon and first class carriages, their numbers, drawing and diagram references, compartments, suburban or main service, dates of modifications, dates of disposal.

GER Carriage Stock - Saloon & First

circa 1904-circa 1940

Volume, paper with board covers, rebound and re-covered, GER Carriage Stock - Brake Thirds & Brakes, written up circa 1902, entries backdated to 1875, with amendments made up to circa 1958. Details GER brake third class and brake carriages, their numbers, drawing and diagram references, compartments, suburban or main service, dates of modifications, dates of disposal.

GER Carriage Stock - Brake Thirds & Brakes

circa 1902-circa 1958

Volume, paper with board covers, rebound and re-covered, GER Carriage Stock - Thirds, entries begin in 1901, with amendments made up to circa 1956. Details GER third class carriages, their numbers, drawing and diagram references, compartments, suburban or main service, dates of modifications, dates of disposal. Second of two volumes listing third class carriages.

GER Carriage Stock - Thirds

circa 1901-circa 1958

Collection of wagon labels, luggage labels, tickets and various goods invoices and forms. Companies include: British Railways; Great Eastern Railway; Great Northern Railway; Great Western Railway; London Midland & Scottish Railway; London & North Eastern Railway (selection of wagon labels from Tadcaster to various locations); North Eastern Railway; Great Orme Railway etc.

Collection of wagon labels, luggage labels, tickets, invoices and other forms (supplied title)